Thread: Gas Grade and Mileage
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Old 04-01-2013, 04:04 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RoshDawg View Post
Something interesting, Porsche (at least on the 991) runs temps of 210-220 for oil when in normal mode to reduce emissions and in turn (I think) increase gas mileage. When selecting sport, oil temp goes down to 180.

Higher oil temp apparently has something to do with emissions.
So running an oil cooler would make the engine run less efficiently as far as MPG goes?
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